The Atkins Lady Red Devils defeated the Elkins Lady Elks 16-4 in the first round of the regional tournament on Monday in Greenland. The win earned Atkins a spot in the Class 3A state tournament. The Lady Devils beat West Fork 7-0 in Tuesday’s semifinal. Look for more scores and results from Tuesday’s regional tournaments in Thursday’s Courier sports. (THE COURIER / submitted)

Three Arkansas River Valley softball teams and two baseball teams qualified for state after regional tournament wins Monday.

In baseball, The Hector Wildcats topped the Magazine Rattlers 10-5 and will play in the Class 2A tournament at Parkers Chapel High School beginning Thursday.

The Lamar Warriors shut out the West Fork Tigers 10-0 in the and earned a spot in the 3A state tournament at Harding Academy in Searcy, also scheduled to begin Thursday.

In softball, the Atkins Lady Red Devils qualified for the 3A state tournament (at White Hall High School near Pine Bluff) with a 16-4 win over the Elkins Lady Elks on Monday.

The Johnson County Westside Lady Rebels edged out Quitman, 13-10 in their regional and qualified for the 2A state tournament at Nortphlet High School. The Pottsville Lady Apaches beat the Gravette Lady Lions 6-3 and will move on to the 4A state tournament at Ashdown on Thursday.

Teams who won Monday played in semifinals and regional championship games on Tuesday. Atkins (20-7) blanked West Fork 7-0 in Tuesday’s semifinal and played for the 3A Region 1 championship Tuesday night. Those scores weren’t available by press time.

Teams which did not come out on top Monday had their seasons come to an end. The Dover Pirates were bumped from their 4A North Region baseball tournament by Ozark, 6-3. Pottsville lost to Farmington 13-3 on Monday.

Danville was shut out 10-0 by the Cedarville Pirates in the 3A Region 1 tournament at Greenland. Johnson County Westside lost to Conway Christian 7-4 in their regional at Hector.

Hector 10, Magazine 5

HECTOR — The Wildcats (13-6) earned their second appearance in the state tournament in as many years.

“It was a good win for us,” Hector head coach Jeff Haralson said. “It was exciting for them to get back to the state tournament and to see them come together as a team and play hard.”

After building a 4-1 lead, the Wildcats scored six runs in the top of the fifth to put the game out of reach for the Rattlers.

Shawn Lusk opened with a single and Bryant Haralson hit one of his own. Carson Lee’s RBI single scored Haralson. J.W. Mackey hit an RBI and Colton Foster was walked to load the bases.

Jacob Chronister scored Lee on a walk and Mackey scored on an error. Rustin Hays smashed a two-RBI double to put Hector up 10-1.

Magazine scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth to set the final score.

Lady Apaches 6, Gravette 3

HEBER SPRINGS — Pottsville (18-8) scored five runs in the top of the first on Hannah Barnett’s walk, Bailey Martin’s single, Laken Gray’s RBI single and Mikayla Scheide’s RBI single. Avery Simpson hit an RBI single, and a pass ball and an error by the second baseman on Haley Stanton’s ground ball made the score 5-0.

Gravette scored one run in the bottom of the fourth on a walk and an RBI triple to make the score 5-1.

In the top of the sixth inning, Pottsville scored on a single by Jasa Connell and an error on Hope Huffman’s ground ball, Martin’s single and a RBI walk to Gray made the score 6-1.

Gravette answered with a run in the bottom half on a walk, sacrifice bunt and an RBI single to make it 6-2.

Gravette scored the final run in the bottom of the 7th inning to set the final score.

Savannah Gosnell was the winning pitcher and gave up two runs on one hit and two base-on balls and had 10 strikeouts. Alex Gantt pitched in the sixth and seventh and gave up three hits, one walk, one run and had three strikeouts.

Ozark 6, Dover 3

HEBER SPRINGS — The Pirates ended their season to the Ozark Hillbillies, but they nothing to hang their heads about, head coach Jason McGhee said.

“We still won our district,” he said. “We still get to hang that banner in the gym. We finished well and we had the match-up we wanted going into regionals. They just manufactured runs that they needed to beat us.”

McGhee said Dover (14-12) had opportunities to change the game, but ultimately were unable to capitilize on them.

“We hit the ball well,” he said. “I’ve just got to give credit to Ozark. They did everything they needed to do to beat us.”